About

Sarah Katz has worked in television and multimedia as a Producer, Associate Producer, and Researcher for more than seventeen years. In fall of 2018 she will lead eight journalists from South and Central Asia to Washington, DC, California, and Hawaii on a reporting tour covering US Indo-Pacific Strategy in light of China’s One Belt, One Road initiative. She routinely produces news stories about American policy with foreign journalists as part of the Department of State, Foreign Press Center’sMedia Co-Op program. An upcoming documentary produced with Pakistani journalists through the Foreign Press Center will tell the story of Muslim communities in America. In May Sarah joined Marginal Revolution University, an economic policy center at George Mason University that produces educational videos. She is co-producing a feature-length historical documentary film about Washington, DC city politics with Director Aimee Dixon. In the spring of 2017 she shot and produced a video promoting ATSC 3.0 technology for the National Association of Broadcasters. Sarah has produced over one hundred and fifty-six half-hours of educational content for The Great Courses, covering topics from science to literature and archaeology, and has credits on over forty documentaries for the History Channel, National Geographic Television, Biography, Planet Green, and Investigation Discovery. Sarah is a member of the New Media Council of the Producers Guild of America and a former Docs In Progress board member. At Docs In Progress she launched the Documentary Inspiration Awards celebrating the work of Marshall Curry and Matthew Hamachek. She received a Master of Fine Art in Film from American University in 2009 for which she received the Guy P. Gannett journalism scholarship from the Maine Community Foundation. Finally, she has an undergraduate degree in French literature and spent a year volunteering in Zimbabwe. Contact Sarah at sarah@katztale.com.